Last saturday I went to Apeldoorn for the “Day of the Radio Amateur” which is really more of a flea market. Of course spent to much money on all kind of nice stuff. My impression was that it was less crowded then last year. Never the less it was a nice day.
One of the things I’ve bought is an extension for my antenna. Now I can mount 2 antenna’s. 
Last fridaynight after a good Italian meal and a few glasses of nice wine it happend: I’ve temporarely overwon my fear of heights and climbed on our roof to put up the antenna!
First I’ve mounted my Diamond V2000A for 6m, 2m and 70 cm.
After a few local QSO’s I heard there were extremely good conditions on HF. Hmmm, still no antenna for HF….
One more glass of wine and there I went up again to put up my open dipole in an inverted L-shape. A few hours later I was on the air on 20m, 40m etc.
Still need to do a lot of work to the shack, but with the antenna’s up I think we can say: PA1JIM is on the air again!
Hope to hear you on the bands soon!
